MADRID 5 Oct. () –
At least one civilian has been injured during the early hours of Saturday as a result of a drone attack by the Ukrainian Army against the Russian region of Voronezh, local authorities have reported.
“Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have tried to attack several companies manufacturing civilian products, according to updated data, one person has been injured,” the region’s governor, Alexander Gusev, said in a Telegram post.
Gusev clarified in the same message that the man “received a shrapnel wound in the arm” and that, as a result of the impact, “a fire broke out on a floor of the same company’s building,” as far as they have been told. displaced Russian emergency services.
The regional governor has also notified another attack also carried out with a drone against another company, in this case without causing any victims or material damage.
Previously, Gusev himself had reported through the same channel that “air defense and electronic warfare forces on duty in the Voronezh region (had) shot down and suppressed several drones.”
“According to preliminary information, there have been no casualties or damage,” although “the threat of attacks with unmanned aerial vehicles in the region persists,” he added in this first report, later updated.
These attacks come after a person in charge of the security apparatus that controls the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, under Russian control, died this Friday due to the explosion of a sticky bomb in the underbody of his vehicle, as announced by the Committee of Russia investigation, which has begun a large-scale operation to find those responsible.
The war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February 2022, when President Putin gave the order to invade his neighboring country. Since then the conflict has progressed without interruption and both sides seem settled on the borders marked during the first months after the Russian advance in the east.
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